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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One of the most aggressive farm groups in this field has been the Nebraska Wheat Growers Association. Four years ago, alarmed at the loss of overseas markets, the Nebraskans started levying a quarter-cent-a-bushel tax on all the wheat produced and sold in their state. The funds, amplified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Battling the Surplus Bulge | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

Alternative to Subsidy. Such efforts are still small. But enough progress is being made to convince many farmers that a real move away from growing crops to dump on the Government and toward producing what people want to buy could lead to a major expansion of U.S. farm markets abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Battling the Surplus Bulge | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

aviation today is a onetime fighter pi lot named Elwood Richard Quesada. As the first administrator of the new Federal Aviation Agency, "Pete" Quesada has the tough task of ensuring the safety of the na tion's 93,900 aircraft and millions of passengers as the U.S. slams into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: General of the Airways | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

A sturdily built man with curly, close-cropped hair and a smile that flashes like a beacon light, Quesada, 55, inherited his Spanish father's dark good looks and his Irish mother's charm and temper. He can be blunt or suave-but in either case he is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: General of the Airways | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

Avoid "Janitor." Encyclopedic in managerial lore, Nickerson is perhaps most fascinating in discussing the semantics of the trade. In what might be called Nickerson's Law of Apartment Ad Copy, it turns out that "redecorated" and "spacious" will make a prospective tenant's mouth water more longingly than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

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